Incident Response Contracts in London

Incident Response
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Incident Response skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Response over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 289 315
Rank change year-on-year +110 +26 +130
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 183 102 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.46% 0.57% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 0.65% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 77 146
10th Percentile £353 £400 £463
25th Percentile £475 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £745
90th Percentile £835 £725 £835
England median daily rate £575 £556 £586
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.08% +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £30.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.94% - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.59 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +68.97% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Incident Response falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in London.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in London.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Response in London

Incident Response
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Response within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +16 29 £600 -4.00% 12
East London - 5 £600 -
South London - 4 £525 - 1
West London +14 3 £450 -18.18% 13
North London -3 2 £650 +188.89%
Incident Response
England

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.19%) Confluence
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.09%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (2.19%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (30.05%) Azure
2 28 (15.30%) AWS
3 17 (9.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 13 (7.10%) GCP
5 7 (3.83%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.83%) SaaS
6 6 (3.28%) Datadog
6 6 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (2.73%) Serverless
8 4 (2.19%) Akamai
8 4 (2.19%) Azure AKS
8 4 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.64%) GitHub
9 3 (1.64%) IaaS
9 3 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (21.86%) Firewall
2 28 (15.30%) Network Security
3 12 (6.56%) TCP/IP
4 10 (5.46%) HTTP
5 8 (4.37%) SMTP
6 7 (3.83%) DNS
6 7 (3.83%) VPN
7 5 (2.73%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (2.73%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.73%) WAN
8 4 (2.19%) Wireless
9 3 (1.64%) SSL
10 2 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (1.09%) DHCP
10 2 (1.09%) FTP
10 2 (1.09%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.09%) IPsec
11 1 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.55%) SAN
11 1 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.09%) Power BI
1 2 (1.09%) SAP BW
1 2 (1.09%) SAP HANA
1 2 (1.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.55%) MySQL
2 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.73%) JIRA
2 4 (2.19%) GitLab
3 3 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 41 (22.40%) Finance
3 30 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.20%) Legal
6 11 (6.01%) Banking
7 5 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.73%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.19%) Law
8 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.64%) Military
9 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.09%) Front Office
10 2 (1.09%) Local Government
10 2 (1.09%) Retail
11 1 (0.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 38 (20.77%) Analyst
2 20 (10.93%) Architect
2 20 (10.93%) Security Analyst
3 19 (10.38%) Security Engineer
4 16 (8.74%) Consultant
5 15 (8.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 15 (8.20%) Security Architect
6 12 (6.56%) Lead
7 10 (5.46%) Senior
8 9 (4.92%) SOC Analyst
9 8 (4.37%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (4.37%) Security Manager
10 7 (3.83%) Operations Engineer
10 7 (3.83%) Security Consultant
11 5 (2.73%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.73%) Coordinator
11 5 (2.73%) Head of Security
12 4 (2.19%) Cloud Architect
12 4 (2.19%) Head of Information Security
12 4 (2.19%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (2.19%) .NET
2 4 (2.19%) Web Services
3 3 (1.64%) JSON
3 3 (1.64%) OAuth
3 3 (1.64%) RESTful
4 2 (1.09%) LDAP
4 2 (1.09%) Node.js
4 2 (1.09%) OpenID
4 2 (1.09%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.09%) SAML
4 2 (1.09%) SAP Basis
4 2 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.09%) YAML
5 1 (0.55%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.55%) Kafka
5 1 (0.55%) REST
5 1 (0.55%) VML
5 1 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.67%) Security Posture
2 17 (9.29%) Cyber Threat
2 17 (9.29%) Security Operations Centre
3 11 (6.01%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.83%) Insider Threat
5 6 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.28%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.73%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.64%) Derivative
8 3 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.64%) Wiki
9 2 (1.09%) CMDB
9 2 (1.09%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.09%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.84%) Windows
2 17 (9.29%) Linux
3 5 (2.73%) Unix
4 3 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.09%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (38.80%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (36.61%) SIEM
3 57 (31.15%) Security Operations
4 51 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (23.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 36 (19.67%) Cloud Security
7 29 (15.85%) Risk Management
8 27 (14.75%) Threat Intelligence
9 24 (13.11%) Agile
9 24 (13.11%) Threat Detection
10 22 (12.02%) Information Security
11 20 (10.93%) Risk Assessment
12 19 (10.38%) Incident Management
12 19 (10.38%) SOAR
13 18 (9.84%) Security Architecture
13 18 (9.84%) Security Monitoring
14 17 (9.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 17 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (8.74%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.39%) Python
2 27 (14.75%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.56%) Kusto Query Language
4 10 (5.46%) Bash
5 6 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.19%) SQL
7 3 (1.64%) Bicep
7 3 (1.64%) Go
8 2 (1.09%) C
8 2 (1.09%) C#
8 2 (1.09%) Java
9 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (21.86%) CISSP
2 37 (20.22%) Security Cleared
3 31 (16.94%) SC Cleared
4 25 (13.66%) CISM
5 21 (11.48%) Degree
6 19 (10.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (7.10%) CEH
8 10 (5.46%) DV Cleared
9 8 (4.37%) CISA
9 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (3.83%) CRISC
10 7 (3.83%) GCIH
11 6 (3.28%) GCIA
11 6 (3.28%) OSCP
12 5 (2.73%) CCSP
12 5 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (2.19%) AWS Certification
13 4 (2.19%) CBAP
13 4 (2.19%) CCNA
13 4 (2.19%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (27.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (25.14%) NIST
3 36 (19.67%) GDPR
4 18 (9.84%) HIPAA
5 12 (6.56%) GRC
6 9 (4.92%) PCI DSS
6 9 (4.92%) SOC 2
7 4 (2.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (2.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (2.19%) NCSC
8 3 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.64%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.64%) QA
8 3 (1.64%) SLA
9 2 (1.09%) EU AI Act
9 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.55%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (5.46%) Active Directory
1 10 (5.46%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.73%) Docker
3 3 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (6.01%) Terraform
2 9 (4.92%) Grafana
2 9 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.83%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.73%) Ansible
5 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.19%) QRadar
5 4 (2.19%) SCCM
6 3 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.09%) CASB
7 2 (1.09%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.09%) Podman
8 1 (0.55%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.55%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.55%) logstash
8 1 (0.55%) Puppet
8 1 (0.55%) Rancher
8 1 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (27.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.57%) Splunk
3 19 (10.38%) ServiceNow
4 13 (7.10%) Google
5 12 (6.56%) Palo Alto
6 8 (4.37%) Qualys
6 8 (4.37%) VMware
7 6 (3.28%) Cisco
7 6 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.64%) Oracle
8 3 (1.64%) SAP
8 3 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.64%) Tenable
9 2 (1.09%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.09%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.09%) Dell
9 2 (1.09%) Imperva
9 2 (1.09%) McAfee
9 2 (1.09%) Okta
9 2 (1.09%) Salesforce